Many thanks to one of our readers for calling attention to an error in yesterday s Dispatch. In our story covering the Consumer Product Safety Commission s (CPSC) new voluntary guidelines for the allowable level of cadmium content in consumer products, ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross questions whether the CPSC conducts its own research. But as it turns out that, according to our knowledgeable (but shy) Dispatch reader:
The CPSC does conduct research. In fact, more than half of CPSC s employees are scientists. CPSC conducts its own scientific studies, and it has an entire fully-staffed research laboratory at a different site than HQ. I can tell you that the number [the maximum acceptable daily intake of cadmium] was generated by an agency scientist after peer review.